June 28, 2009

"A failure is in the past," Garr Reynolds in PRESENTATION ZEN

A successful designer and student of zen, Garr Reynolds delivers a liberating perspective in his 2008 book PRESENTATION ZEN. He knows from experience how much fear of mistakes - or downright earlier disasters - can deter us creatives from thinking and acting out of the box.

His angle on that is "A failure is in the past." As a zen believer, for Reynolds the only time that's real is the now. Therefore, as he points out since the failure was in the past, "In fact, it doesn't exist."

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Thank you for the excellent post on Garr Reynolds. I work for Peachpit Press and thought you and your readers might be interested in knowing that he just released his first online streaming video, Presentation Zen: The Video, where he expands on the ideas presented in his book and blog. The DVD is now available for purchase as well. More info can be found here: